Intelligence Report Links Saddam, Usama
 

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (search) gave terror lord Usama bin Laden's thugs financial and logistical support, offering Al Qaeda (search) money, training and haven for more than a decade, it was reported yesterday.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103163,00.html

fox news the only source? heh

let's nuke em

Is it? I don't know.

The same source that claimed Iraq had WMD's ?
*grin*

Original conception date: Sept. 14th, 2001

Editing for release: Nov. 13th, 2003

Elections are a'coming! :helpme

I was short on time this morning...but now that I have reviewed the FOX article...I have learned that FOX is not the original source.

This is the actual source and it has a lengthy in depth report...and is a must read for those that want to stay informed.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...3/378fmxyz.asp

Yeah it's always relevant when some politcal assassin pieces together 30 or 40 pieces of info to support his bosses arguement from the millions of pieces of info that the CIA possesses.

:1orglaugh

I have seen pics of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam.

Can I see one of Osoma shaking hands with Saddam???

NO!

Opinions from quebec are like assholes.

:Graucho

lets

Why? You would just proclaim it to be a doctored photo.

:1orglaugh

The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It was written in response to a request from the committee as part of its investigation into prewar intelligence claims made by the administration. Intelligence reporting included in the 16-page memo comes from a variety of domestic and foreign agencies, including the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. Much of the evidence is detailed, conclusive, and corroborated by multiple sources. Some of it is new information obtained in custodial interviews with high-level al Qaeda terrorists and Iraqi officials, and some of it is more than a decade old. The picture that emerges is one of a history of collaboration between two of America's most determined and dangerous enemies.

According to the memo--which lays out the intelligence in 50 numbered points--Iraq-al Qaeda contacts began in 1990 and continued through mid-March 2003, days before the Iraq War began. Most of the numbered passages contain straight, fact-based intelligence reporting, which in
some cases includes an evaluation of the credibility of the source. This reporting is often followed by commentary and analysis.

The relationship began shortly before the first Gulf War. According to reporting in the memo, bin Laden sent "emissaries to Jordan in 1990 to meet with Iraqi government officials." At some unspecified point in 1991, according to a CIA analysis, "Iraq sought Sudan's assistance to establish links to al Qaeda." The outreach went in both directions. According to 1993 CIA reporting cited in the memo, "bin Laden wanted to expand his organization's capabilities through ties with Iraq."

The primary go-between throughout these early stages was Sudanese strongman Hassan al-Turabi, a leader of the al Qaeda-affiliated National Islamic Front. Numerous sources have confirmed this. One defector reported that "al-Turabi was instrumental in arranging the Iraqi-al Qaeda relationship. The defector said Iraq sought al Qaeda influence through its connections with Afghanistan, to facilitate the transshipment of proscribed weapons and equipment to Iraq. In return, Iraq provided al Qaeda with training and instructors."

I hope both of them are alraedy dead.

Laden was trained and funded at his early stages by CIA. Your own tax money caused NY tragedy. Truth hurts.

Is this the same intelligence that said there was Weapons Of Mass Destruction?!

Hahahahaha foxnews.....

Please, those guys wanted to take on the Simpsons in court.

Foxnews... HAHAHAHA

They're gonna have bikini babes reading the "news" soon.....

Brought to you by the same incredible intelligence operations that has assured us that Saddam was developing nuclear weapons and other great weapons of mass destruction that could be used in a matter of hours against the United States and other countries.

And who can forget their uncanny info that allowed us to kill Saddam with a BIG BOMB before the war even began!

Yes, when you think of intelligence..think of G.W. Bush & Co.!
They're never wrong!

Or at least they'll never admit to being wrong!

(It's only been 6 months and Iraq's a big country..those WMDs could be hidden under any oasis!)

Fox News is not the source...pay attention.

He was part of a force that was attempting to repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It was US policy during the cold war to contain the Soviet Union. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." US tax money had zero to do with 9/11.

The source is a guy who works for the Bush administration and this guy's sources, who are they? Nobody knows. Probably the same people who provided the documents about Saddam seeking nukes from a certain country.

Where are all those weapons provided by Saddam btw? A US plane? Box cutters? Home-made explosives that can barely destroy a building?

Here is an update on this story from the U.S. Government's website:

News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate.

http://www.dod.mil/releases/2003/nr20031115-0642.html

And what happened on March 2001 when they paid ~$240 million to the Talibans?

You gave the answer. USA involvement bounced back. Now Laden may serve the same "logic": The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Find a president who will be able to step away from this type of reasoning and you'll be safer than ever. You create your enemies like all ultra powerful countries in the past.

Intelligence reporting included in the 16-page memo comes from a variety of domestic and foreign agencies, including the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. Much of the evidence is detailed, conclusive, and corroborated by multiple sources. Some of it is new information obtained in custodial interviews with high-level al Qaeda terrorists and Iraqi officials, and some of it is more than a decade old. The picture that emerges is one of a history of collaboration between two of America's most determined and dangerous enemies.

Said Levin: "The question is whether or not they exaggerated intelligence in order to carry out their purpose, which was to make the case for going to war. Did we know, for instance, with certainty that there was any relationship between the Iraqis and the terrorists that were in Afghanistan, bin Laden? The administration said that there's a connection between those terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq. Was there a basis for that?"

There was, as shown in the memo to the committee on which Levin serves. And much of the reporting comes from Clinton-era intelligence.

Here is an update on this story from the U.S. Government's website:

News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate.

http://www.dod.mil/releases/2003/nr20031115-0642.html

what a change...

all of the sudden, you're going to start believing the US government?

You are the one who believes everything Bush says, right?

Bush says you got suckered. :)

The Taliban is not al Qaeda. We provided financial aid to Afganistan...and even sent aid after 9/11 as an on going program.

Well the DoD already said that those reports on Al-Qaida and Iraq connections are inaccurate. What more do you want?

11 years of relationship with Saddam got them a few box cutters and plane tickets? quiet impressive.

Not quite, you just have the attention span of my left nut.

you keep trying to stick that to me, i'll keep pointing out what a pathetic piece of shit you are... deal?

# Nov. 15, 2003: Two U.S. Black Hawks crash in Mosul, killing 17 and injuring 5, with one missing.

fuck this fucking war :321GFY

oops. i mean peace

prime example of the pussification of americans.

any comment on this theking?

Your positions would make even Bush to wonder :glugglug

All that they are saying is that the DOD has not confirmed the accuracy of recent information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq. It is raw data and has yet to be confirmed.

how many bodies until we win? i think everyone would love to know.

He's still got 6 more countries to invade, you gotta be patient. He has to follow God's plan, he's got faith :)

No...that is not what the DOD said. What the DOD said is that it is inaccurate to say that the "RECENT" information they (the DOD)have obtained has been confirmed. It is raw...as of yet unconfirmed...data.

we'd be out already of we weren't treating the joint with kid gloves.

but we gotta try and make people like you happy and put more importance on the protecting the enemy at the same time we're trying to get rid of them.

so it gets dragged out, and people die.

But I'm sure that Al-Qaida had no choice but to collaborate with there enemy in order to get money and weapons from him :) Perhaps it's time for me to hide in my basement, the terrorists are coming with Saddam's WMD's.

"President Bush doesn't want pictures of flag-draped coffins on television for the same reason he has yet to attend the funeral of one American soldier killed in Iraq. He doesn't want to be seen standing next to a coffin."

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The same comment..."The enemy of my enemy is my friend". It is not a new concept...as been employed by many in history...and will be employed by many in the future. It is a world in flux.

we wouldn't have soldiers dying in iraq if we had just not gone.

I of course do not know...but the war that was declared after 9/11 was a global war against terrorists...and is expected to last for several decades...so if I were you I would think in terms tens of thousands of American losses and ten times that amount in non-American losses.

sounds good plan to me, what will the outcome be?

and then we win, right?

Why do you care? You'd be very old or probably dead by then :)

beats me. it's not like anyone will be around after i die :glugglug